Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is concerned that cryptocurrencies may impact financial stability in Asia’s third-largest economy, a view that could shape looming regulations on the asset that is breaking price-records around the world. The monetary authority has conveyed these “major concerns” to government, Governor Shaktikanta Das said in an interview to CNBC TV-18. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s …

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will probably signal its readiness to lower its negative interest rate by pledging to mitigate any harmful impact such a move would have at a review next month, according to a former BOJ official in charge of monetary policy. “The BOJ likely wants to restore a rate cut as a viable option,” Kazuo Momma …

Bloomberg Hong Kong unveiled its first stamp-duty increase on stock trades since 1993, sparking a broad selloff in the $7.6 trillion market and sending shares of the city’s exchange to their biggest plunge in more than five years. The planned trading-tax increase to 0.13% from 0.10% was part of a raft of new measures announced in Hong Kong’s budget that …